In fairness, the natives domesticated (i.e. cross-bred, culling the less desirable strains) a lot of wild plants and turned them into staples. Things like potatoes, chili peppers, corn, beans and squash are available in the form we see today because they were domesticated thousands of years ago by pre-Columbian Native Americans.
You’re right. They did tomatoes too.
My favorite food by far!!! Summer, it’s breakfast, lunch and dinner. I am forever in their debt!
But you still have to admit that Western Civilizations were far more advanced.
But Rome alone put most of Western Civ to shame.
Living in the Dark Ages seeing an aqueduct and thinking WTH! They had to wonder about the superior architectural structures and wonder why they did not now have a clue.